Emily Thornberry Quotes

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

In wartime the herd instinct rise …

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

I grew up around really tough-nosed guys so that's all I know.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Clearly, Black men need to employ a feminist analysis that will address the issue of how to construct a life sustaining Black masculinity that does not have its roots in patriarchal phallocentrism.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

I think its feminism. If it’s tied to the last 50 years—the average size of a male’s member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago—it has to be the feminazis, the chickafication, and everything else.

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.

I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

I'm not a bro.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.